News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona filed an amended Notice of Intent to seek the death penalty against Ryan Phillip Schlesinger.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Sexual Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A woman from Los Angeles was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for transporting 60 pounds of methamphetamine to Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) led a bicameral letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today urging a pause or full reversal of the proposed exemption of Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Area Conservation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Phillip A. Kenner was sentenced by United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 17 years’ imprisonment for stealing millions of dollars in funds raised from Long Island residents and professional athletes that were intended for investment in land developments...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Levon Verian Butts, age 29, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 12 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in the armed robbery of a gas station owner. The sentence was imposed on Oct. 2, 2020. Butts has been detained since his arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a grand jury indicted a Bronx, New York, man today for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Great Falls, Montana, businessman pleaded guilty today to employment tax fraud, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme for the District of Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
Release: COLONIE, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Albany International Airport is now using new technology that confirms the validity of a traveler’s identification (ID) and confirms their flight information in near real time.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of CLARISSA LYNN COMBS, 49, to 71 months in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud and making a false statement. COMBS, who pleaded guilty on December 4, 2019, was sentenced today before Senior Judge David S. Doty in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A total of 12 defendants have pleaded guilty and been sentenced for their roles in the conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office announced today the recent acquisition of the Hallock Homestead property in Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area. The 134-acre property stretches for approximately one mile along an alluvial bench of the Gunnison River.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and New Canaan Police Chief Leon Krolikowski announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging BRIAN GRINNELL, 35, of Lakewood, Ohio, with distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Was Previously Convicted of Sex Offense in Maryland State Court; Faces Potential Mandatory Minimum Sentence of Ten Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Terrill Latney, an associate of the “Red Stone Gorilla" subset of the Bloods, a violent criminal enterprise based in Riverhead, New York, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to 20 years’ imprisonment for racketeering, including...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy selected 13 projects to receive approximately $1.95 million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from U.S. coal and coal by-product sources. Each...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Illinois man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for conspiring to transport heroin and cocaine to New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Hudson, South Dakota, man convicted of Wire Fraud was sentenced on Sept. 29, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was sentenced today for using fraud and bribery to facilitate his child’s acceptance to Georgetown University.
